The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-22
NO FEVER AT MANATEE.
The Health of the Whole Section Re-
ported to Be Excellent.

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MANATEE, FLA, Nov. 16.-Iu the MORN
ING NEWS of Nov. II appears telegram
from Tampa, in which it is stated there are
IA cases and three deaths from yellow fever
at Manatee. There is not single case of
| yellow fever here, nor has there been. At
| this writing, on the authority of DR.. j.
| Crews Pelot, one Of the principal physicians,
! there is not q single case of any kind of
! fever on the whole Manatee river section,
comprising population of about 500 per-
sons, and there is only one case sick, DR..
| Driscoll, who is now ConvaleScent, and his
physician, Dr. Lefingwell, told me only a
! few minutes since that DR.. Driscoll had not
a particle of fever. Besides this, out of
nearly 100 school children attending the
| Manatee Academy, there is not single pu-
| pill ON the sick list
! 1t is true that we have had a number of
cases of fever of very severe type and three
! deaths, but every one of these cases has
been traced by the physicians to one locality
in the village, house occupied as drug
| store III the lower part, a millinery estab-
! lishment in the second story and TIE office
of the writer of this article
An ''old we'll" very near this building, ac-
cording to the Judgment of our physicians,
! after the most careful investigation, was no
| doubt the one source of the fever in Mana
type, but differing in intensity, thereby de
veloping in the different patients distinc-
| lively remittent, bilious congestion and
| typho- malarial Of these two latter, Rev.
| Crowder, Dr. Johnston and Mrs. Wilson
died. Everyone of the Others taken about
the same time, has recovered and are at
| tending to their duties.
Rev. Mr.. Crowders case had many symp-
| toms similar to those of yellow fever, and
was considered suspicious, but although
! twenty days have elapsed since he died, not
a single individual of the great numbers
who visited him, nursed him, and laid him
ont after death, has been sick
| Again, while every person, who remained
in the drug store, DR.. Johnston and his three
sons, and every one who sat up with Mrs.
! Tubbs, the milliner VINO occupied the build
ing, were taken sick not a single person,
those who nursed DR.. Johnston, including
his wife and daughters, has been sick, show
! ing beyond a doubt that the cause was
malaria.
Again, there has not been a single case of
any kind of fever within the last ten days,
showing beyond a doubt that there has
been no yellow fever in Mana ee. Dr.
| Pelot, after carefully studying these
fevers, fifteen days ago, told the people not
to be alarmed, that he would stake his rep
utation on it that no one would get the fever
! from contact with those who had it, but
that anyone remaining at the building re-
ferred TO would get it in six hours His po-
sition has been completely verified by the
| facts.
DR.. Pelot has been the chief practicing
physician at Manatee for more than twenty
years, has carefully studied and treated all
the various forms of fever which we have
in South Florida, has had yellow fever-gen-
| uine yellow fever--and has treated it in others
and there is no physician in this county who
is more careful of his medical opinion, and
is the last man in the world to have risked
the lives of his neighbors and their chill.
d.en in giving an opinion on which he knew
they would fully rely, unless he had known
that that opinion was based on what he be
heved to be, after the most careful investi
CATION, indubitable evidence. Had yellow
lever been here he would have told the peo-
pie at once to leave the village. They de
pended on him implicitly, and time has de
veloped the fact that their confidence wa,
not misplaced